Kevin, as far as i know , thin provisioning is only supported using StorageLink. I'm going to receive my equallogic box next week and i choose equallogic for thin provisioning feature.
Any of you can setup a test environment ? Diego 2012/6/20 Kevin Kluge <[email protected]> > All of the EqualLogic deployments I'm aware of export iSCSI LUNs to > CloudStack and add the primary storage as type iSCSI in CloudStack. > There's a wide variety of storage used in production with CloudStack, but > EqualLogic is one of the more popular options. I haven't heard of anyone > using StorageLink. > > With XenServer people use local disk, iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel (via > PreSetup). iSCSI and NFS are the popular choices. > > The challenge we have seen with XenServer and iSCSI is admin debugging in > the case of issues. Many people don't know or understand the volume > commands needed in this environment, so if something goes wrong the > debugging process can be tedious (as compared to NFS, where you can manage > VHD files with ls,cp,etc). > > -kevin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lucas Hughes [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:07 PM > > To: [email protected]; cloudstack- > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Cloudstack Supporting Xenserver StorageLink storage pool > > > > On 06/20/2012 05:13 PM, Lucas Hughes wrote: > > > My enviroment that I am testing with has Equallogic San's that are > > > connecting to our XenServer 6.0 pool. I have setup a pre-setup storage > > > pool in Cloudstack that on the XenServer side uses the Citrix > > > StorageLink driver. We are getting issues with creating vm's that have > > > their root volume set to use the presetup storage tag. > > > > > > It seems that the common error is that storage repository type cslg > > > (Citrix Storage Link Gateway) is not supported. I am wondering if this > > > is issue with Cloudstack not supporting storagelink drivers or weird > > > Xenserver issue. Any feedback is welcome and I am curious to hear from > > > anyone else using Xenserver and equallogic san's with cloudstack how > > > things are working for them. > > > > > > > > Another question regarding Cloudstack and storage types. Xenserver has > > many different types of supported storage manage objects. From my earlier > > email I see that cslg is not supported. I was wondering if anyone here > has a > > list of storage mange objects that are in Xen that Cloudstack supports. > > > > -- > > Lucas Hughes > > Cloud Engineer > > Ecommerce Inc > >
